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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Shimon & Deena Smursz Charitable Foundation

Advancement of religious education and relief of poverty

C$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k37 grants · C$64k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$141k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$328k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.3M
C$2,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$106k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTEC$750,000
JHF - CADC$540,852
YESHIVA NACHALAS ZVIC$93,250
KAV SHALOMC$71,073
YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAHC$59,830
BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOLC$51,966
KOLLEL AVREICHIMC$51,760
BNOS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOLC$44,088
KDY INSTITUTEC$33,600
IATHSC$26,400
CANDIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIBA BETH HILLEC$16,386
YESHIVA GEDOLA ZICHRON SHMAYAHUC$10,844
CONGREGATION OHOLEI YOM TOV TORONTOC$10,000
BNAI ZION CHARITY FUNDC$8,990
SHOMRAI SHABBOSC$6,341
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.6M · 56 repeat orgsC$359k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
36

Total granted

C$5.6M
C$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

84%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$118k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • JC
    JHF - CAD
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +423%
  • KD
    KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +406%
  • YY
    YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$238k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • GO
    GATES OF MERCY
    one grant, 2019 · C$209k
  • BM
    BETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k
  • TA
    TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF TORONTO MISHKAN HATORAH CHARITABLE TRgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Association Merkaz Hachinuch

To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva

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2
The Yeshivah Scholarship Fund of Israel

Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.

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3
Yeshivah Toras Chaim

The charity provides scholarships and assistance to needy students to enable them to study at yeshiva toras chalm

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4
Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Wiznitz of Bnei Braq

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at yeshivat wiznitz.

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5
Alumni Association of Yeshivatkol Torah

To provide scholarships and assistance to indigent sutudents enrolled in post secondary education in yeshivat kol torah in israel.

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6
Kollel Tosh

The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.

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7
Canadian Friends of the Institute 0HOLEI Torah

The charity provides scholarship to needy students

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8
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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9
Kollel Yisroel Dovid

The charity provides scholarships to fund talmudic research.

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10
The Canadian Friends of Mercaz Hatorah

Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.

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11
Canadian Friends of Mesivta Torah Temimah

Provide scholarsheps and assistance to deserving students to continue their studies at mesivta torah temimah.

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12
Mishmeret

During the fiscal period, the organization accepted funds which were dispersed as scholarships to deserving students and to sholars doing research to be used in the study of judaism.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Les Amis Canadiens Du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer De Jerusalem Inc./Canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem and the most unlike its peers is Les Amis Du College Mestiva of Lakewood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/95
Grantees still filing
40/95
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJHF - CAD — C$2,097,887 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE — C$1,257,907 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBeth Oloth Charitable Organization — C$486,120 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKOLLEL AVREICHIM — C$329,500 over 8y, 20% of budgetYESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH — C$237,625 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$222,993 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC AND HALACHIC STUDIES — C$205,950 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetYESHIVA NACHALAS ZVI — C$175,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetJHF-USD — C$100,932 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetKAV SHALOM — C$96,430 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL — C$68,380 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetKUPAT HACHESED MEOROTH — C$58,104 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBNAI ZION CHARITY FUND — C$41,767 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLA ZICHRON SHMAYAHU — C$25,620 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIBA BETH HILLE — C$17,650 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetZICHRON SHNEUR — C$14,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV OF THORNHILL — C$12,900 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHOMRAI SHABBOS — C$12,830 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF PASSAIT YESHIVA — C$10,100 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS MIR — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLA OF MONTREAL — C$8,380 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTORATH EMETH — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKESSER TORAH — C$4,980 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF MILTON EISNER YESHIVA — C$4,660 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetYESHIVA MISHKAN YOSEF — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF TORONTO MISHKAN HATORAH CHARITABLE TR — C$3,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF BETH HATALMUD — C$3,400 over 5y, 11% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM SOCIETY — C$3,370 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER — C$2,631 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECHO WOMEN'S CHOIR — C$2,300 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YAD L'ACHIM — C$2,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKOLLEL KESER TORAH — C$2,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKOLLEL TORAS MOSHE — C$2,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART TO HEART FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBEIS MEIR — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEYLIM OF CANADA — C$1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKEREN ONTARIO — C$1,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAHAVAT YISRAEL HEBREW SCHOOL — C$1,600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF NEVE — C$1,600 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCONGREGATION BNAI TORAH — C$1,520 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN SCHOLARSHIP FIND OF OHR HAMEIR — C$1,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF MAOR GERSHON — C$1,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTORONTO SEPHARDIC KOLLEL — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACS — C$1,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HAIRG — C$1,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAASIM TOVIM FOUNDATION — C$1,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF CHASIDEI BRESLOV — C$1,220 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCONGREGATION MBG — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The F&R Hauer Charita…The George Hofstedter…Nathan & Shani Bleema…Zolty Charitable Foun…The Chaim Moshe Fried…Heitner Charitable Fo…Moral Arc FoundationJ & H Feldman Charita…Schofam Charitable Fo…The Gross Family Foun…The S. Sigler Family …Linas Tzedek Charitab…
The F&R Hauer Charitable FoundationON57.1× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation · The George Hofstedter Family Foundation · Nathan & Shani Bleeman Charitable Foundation · Zolty Charitable Foundation · The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund · Heitner Charitable Foundation · Moral Arc Foundation · J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation · Schofam Charitable Foundation · The Gross Family Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · Linas Tzedek Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 109 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 893220764:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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